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Juan Gabriel Vasquezbooks include the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin award winner and national bestseller, The Sound of Things Falling, as well as the award-winning The Informers and The Secret History of Costaguana.

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The Outsider

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The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mind-set. “An exhaustive, luminously intelligent study…a real contribution to our understanding of our deepest predicament.”—Philip Toynbee.

Table of Contents

The OutsiderForeword By Marilyn FergusonIntroduction: The Outsider Twenty Years On

I. The Country of the BlindII. World Without ValuesIII. The Romantic OutsiderIV. The Attempt to Gain ControlV. The Pain ThresholdVI. The Question of IdentityVII. The Great Synthesis . . .VIII. The Outsider as VisionaryIX. Breaking the Circut